From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 19 11:31:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA06705 for current-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 11:31:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (rocky.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA06698 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 11:31:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA15955; Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:30:56 -0700 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 12:30:56 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199601191930.MAA15955@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: "Garrett A. Wollman" Cc: Nate Williams , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pppd route/proxy problem In-Reply-To: <9601191924.AA10122@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> References: <199601182009.NAA12968@rocky.sri.MT.net> <9601191811.AA10365@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199601191857.LAA15780@rocky.sri.MT.net> <9601191924.AA10122@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Cool. However, it's not obvious to find when ARP request expire? The > > expire numbers start at zero and are getting more and more negative. > > If they are negative, they should have already expired. The kernel > actually stores an explicit expiration time, and the `route' and > `netstat' programs subtract the current time for you. This is obviously not the case. 204.182.243.200 is an unused IP address on my network. gateway:~ # ping 204.182.243.200 PING 204.182.243.200 (204.182.243.200): 56 data bytes ^C --- 204.182.243.200 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss gateway:~ # arp -a ? (204.182.243.200) at (incomplete) gateway:~ # route get 204.182.243.200 route to: 204.182.243.200 destination: 204.182.243.200 interface: ed0 flags: recvpipe sendpipe ssthresh rtt,msec rttvar hopcount mtu expire 16384 16384 0 0 0 0 1500 -6 gateway:~ # gateway:~ # arp -a ? (204.182.243.200) at (incomplete) gateway:~ # gateway:~ # route get 204.182.243.200 route to: 204.182.243.200 destination: 204.182.243.200 interface: ed0 flags: recvpipe sendpipe ssthresh rtt,msec rttvar hopcount mtu expire 16384 16384 0 0 0 0 1500 -8 gateway:~ # gateway:~ # arp -a ? (204.182.243.200) at (incomplete) Nate